Liquid-cooler.



Patented 'Aug. 8, I899.

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G. A. BLESS.

LIQUID COOLER. ;Application 6166 066. 17, 1898.)

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' UNITED STATES- PATENT GFFICE GEORGE A. CLESS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FERDINAND BIEGUS, OF SAME/PLACE.

LIQUID-COOLER.

srncrrronrron forming part of Tietters Patent No. 630,660, dated August s, 1899.

Application filed October 1'7, 1898.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. OLESS,'a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and'complete description sufficient to enable those skilled in the artto understand, make, and use the same. i This invention relates to that class of liquid I coolers designed to have a comparatively large quantity of liquid pass therethrough, to be cooled in such passage to a determined or de sired temperature, usually for drinking purposes, and I have heretofore used the liquidcooler embodying my invention for cooling" beer just as it is drawn'for drinking.

In the use of this liquid-cooler for cooling beer I have found that no ice or other means of cooling the beer in the keg is.required, such beer being well cooled in its passage through the liquid-cooler.

The object of this invention is to obtain a liquid-cooler which may be placed adjacent. to the place where the liquid passing 'therethrough is to be drawnas, say, underneatha bar when water or beer is to be passed through it and which will effectually cool such water or beer to the temperature thereof desired for drinking when drawn from a water or beer supply not artificially cooled.; A further object of this invention is to obtain a liquid-cooler of small cubical capacity; relative to the quantity of liquid which can be passed therethrough and cooled.-

A further object of the invention is to ob- 1 tain a liquid-cooler which can be readily j cleaned and otherwise kept in good order at small cost; and a further object isto obtain. a liquid-cooler which can be used as a common cooler for two or more sources of supply from which the liquid can be drawn in unison or alternately or successively, asdesired--' as, say, from one of two kegs of beer, from both kegs, or from one keg until the supply therein is exhausted and then from the other one.

In the drawings referred to as forming a Serial No. 693,727. (No model.)

part of this specification, Figure l is a longitudinal vertical View of the liquid-cooler elnbodying my invention and of a pan or receptacle in which it is placed; with a freezing and useful Improvements inLiquid-Coolers,

mixture contained in the outer receptacle between it and the liquidcooler; and Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional-view or such liquid-cooler and of theouter receptacle illustrated in Fig. 1, on line 2 2 of Fig; 1, viewed 1 in the direction indicated by the arrows.

A reference-letter'applied to a given part is used to designate such part throughout both figures of the drawings wherever the same ap pears. I

A is the outer shell or case of the-liquidcooler embodying the invention and is pref erably cylindrical in form. Shell or case A is constructed of the walls a (preferably cylindrical, as stated) and the end walls a a (such end walls having therein, respectively, the apertures B B) and the inner cylinder B secured therein. In use the cylinder B serves to allow iced water or water from melting ice or salt and water to run therethrough. The shell or case A may be ens of any sediment by removing cap e and run ning water (hot or cold) or other cleansing liqu'id through the shell or case when necessary. When the cooler is in use, the cap 6 is retained over outlet E, sealing it.

F F are inlets to the shell or case A. These inlets F F are independent of each other and any number thereof may be placed to the shell or case A, it being the purpose to have as many of such inlets as there are to be sources of supply connected to the cooler,

and'such inlets are duplicates of each other,

each thereof consisting of the curved pipe f,

having outlet-holesf ftherein, suchoutletholes f f being so located on the inlet-pipe f as to discharge all liquid coming therethrough against the inner surface of the wall a. Wall a being on its outer surface covered by the cooling material, (either ice or water, salt and ice, or other freezing mixture,) the discharge against the inner surface of liquid coming through pipe f causes such liquid to be quickly reduced in temperature, particularly when the supply of liquid to the shell or case A is discharged from pipe f through a number of small apertures or holes ff.

G is a coupling by means of which the supply-pipe H is readily secured to the inlet F. The supply-pipe II in drawing beer through the cooler embodying my invention is connected at its inlet end to a beer-keg in the ordinary way and no representation thereof is given.

I is the outlet of the cooler, extending therefrom to the faucet through which the contents of the liquid cooler are discharged.

Out-let I extends from the bottom of the shell or case A or from near the bottom thereof. I prefer to have openings J J obtained by cutting away small portions of the pipe forming such outlet.

K is a coupling on the upper end of the discharge I or outlet I.

L L are stop-cocks in inlets F F, respectively, and L is a stop-cock in outlet I.

WVhen the cooler is to be cleaned by running or forcing cleansing liquid therethrough, as hereinbefore stated, either one of the supply-pipes H H may be disconnected from the liquid-supply and connected to the supply of such cleansing liquid.

M is a partition dividing the liquid-cooler into two compartments, and N is a pipe forming a passage-way connecting such compartments.

0 is a stop-cock in pipe N. When the stopcock 0 is open, the liquid entering the cooler from one end may be drawn through the cooler to be discharged from either receptacle through the discharge-pipes hereinbefore described; but when such stop-cock O is closed liquid entering the cooler at one end must be discharged through the discharge-outlet at such end. Hence one liquid, as the same kind of beer from two kegs, can be run alternately into one and the other of the compartments of the cooler and discharged through one discharge-pipe, or two liquids, as two kinds of beer, can be drawn at the same time through the cooler, each kind beingdischarged from a separate discharge-pipe, the stop-cock 0 being closed.

More than two compartments may be made in the cooler, if desired, the several compartments being constructed in the same way as are the compartments illustrated in the drawings and herein described, and all the compartments being connected by a pipe (as pipe N) forming a communicating passage-way between adjacent compartments.

P is an air-vent, and Q a stop-cock therein.

The manner of using this cooler is: Supplypipes H H are connected to liquid-supply receptacles which are independent of each other-as, say, two beer-kegs. The ordinary air-pressure is supplied the kegs, and one or both of the stop-cocks L L are opened. Beer will then enter the compartments of the cooler upon the opening of stop-cocks O and Q to permit the air contained therein to escape through the vent-pipe vP. The pressure in the compartments will then be substantially the same as in the beer-kegs. If beer is to be drawnirom but one of the supply-kegs, the stop-cock O is closed and the stop-cock L is opened. Thereafter the opening of the ordinary faucet at the upper end of the pipe I (such faucet not being shown, as it forms no part of this invention) will permit beer to be discharged from the outlet or discharge-pipe I. All the beer discharged through dischargepipe I enters such pipe through openings J J at the bottom thereof, and hence no foam or other substance of light specific gravity will be discharged through such outlet from the cooler.

Ordinarily but one of the stop-cocks L L is opened at the same time where but one kind of liquid is being run through the cooler, one being opened until the beer or other liquid contained in the supply-keg or other receptacle connected therewith is emptied, and then such stop-cock being closed and the other one being opened, a new supply being substituted for the exhausted supply-keg while the second-named supply is being drawn through the cooler by means of the opening of the last-named stop-cock L. Where two discharge-pipes P, as is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, are put in the cooler and dif ferent liquids are being passed through the different compartments of the cooler, each of such compartments is separated from adja cent compartments by closing the stop-cocks 0, and each compartment is put into com munication with its source of supply by open ing the stop-cock L thereof. The different liquids will then be discharged from the cooler, each liquid through its separate discharge-pipe I.

No ice for cooling the beer or other liquid passing through the cooler is required to be placed about the supply-kegs or at any other place except about the cooler-as, say, in receptacle O, as hereinbefore described.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a liquid-cooler, the combination of an outer shell or case, a cylinder with open ends secured in the ends of such shell or case, a partition dividing the receptacle into compartments, inlets consisting of a pipe extending through the wall of the shell, or case and curved to extend along such wall adjacent to the inner surface thereof, in each of the compartments of the receptacles, with apertures discharging against such inner surface, an outlet consisting of a pipe extending from the bottom of the shell or case upward through the upper wall thereof, such pipe having informing a passage-way, connecting the compartment in such receptacle, more than one inlet, more than one outlet, one thereof a discharge-outlet and the other a cleaning-outlet, the inlets consisting, respectively, of a pipe extending through the wall of the shell and along the inner surface thereof, adjacent to such wall, and having apertures discharging against such inner surface, and the discharge-outlets extending from near the bottom of each compartment of the receptacle upward, passing to one side of the wall of the central passage-Way through the receptacle, a pipe connecting the compartments, an air-- vent pipe, and stop-cocks in the several inlets and outlets, in the pipe connecting the compartments and in the air-vent pipe; substantially as described.

GEORGE A. OLESS.

In presence of--- ELEONORA FERNSNER, CHARLES TURNER BROWN. 

